Julian John Thurstan Gough (born 1974)[2] was a Group Leader in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) of the Medical Research Council (MRC).
[9] Gough was educated at The Perse School[10] in Cambridge and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a joint honours degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1998.
[9][10] He went on to complete his PhD in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) supervised by Cyrus Chothia on genome analysis and protein structure as a postgraduate student of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating in 2001.
[5] Following his PhD, Gough completed postdoctoral research at the LMB and Stanford University, with Michael Levitt.
[10] He has also been a visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and an associate professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.